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Alina Klerings

Alina Klerings

Wissenschaft­licher Mitarbeiter
Universität Mannheim
Institut für Enterprise Systems
L 15, 1–6
68161 Mannheim

Forschungs­interessen

  • Safe and Responsible AI
  • Interpretability, Evaluation and Robustness of Language Models
  • Applied Machine Learning for the Energy Sector, Crisis Response and Humanitarian Aid

Short CV

Seit 2023 Wissenschaft­liche Mitarbeiterin am Institute for Enterprise Systems und in der NLP Research Group
2020–2023 Master of Science in Data Science an der Universität Mannheim
2016–2020 Bachelor of Arts in Computer­linguistik an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Publikationen

  • Klerings, A., Brinkmann, J., Stuckenschmidt, H., & Ponzetto, S. P. (2026). Mood Matters: How Syntactic Sensitivity Undermines Safety Alignment. arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.05409
  • Klerings, A., Brinkmann, J., Ruffinelli, D., & Ponzetto, S. P. (2025). Steering language models in multi-token generation: A case study on tense and aspect. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (pp. 8632-8650).
  • Klerings, A., Bartelt, C., & Mueller, A. (2024). Developmentally plausible multimodal language models are highly modular. In The 2nd BabyLM Challenge at the 28th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (pp. 118–139).